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A Bootiful Podcast

A Bootiful Podcast

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the legendary Adib Saikali on AI, the power of the platform, and more

May 14, 202623 min

Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on his new book ”Testing Spring Boot Applications”

May 7, 202623 min

Ronald Dehuysser, founder of JobRunr, on their ambitious new ”ClawRunr”-like agent runtime

Apr 30, 202620 min

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam and James Ward on Intelligent Kotlin

Apr 23, 202618 min

the legendary Craig Walls

Apr 16, 202650 min

Mark Kropf on AI orchestration

Apr 9, 202630 min

Java Developer Advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to legendary Java developer advocate Ana-Maria Mihalceanu, recorded at JavaOne 2026

Apr 2, 202631 min

Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on MCP Security

Hi Spring, AI, Spring AI, security, and Spring Security fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel-Garnier Moiroux!

Mar 26, 202645 min

Cay Horstmaan, legendary Java professor, author, lecturer

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary Java author, professor, and Java Champion Cay Horstmann, whom you might know from classics such as "Core Java." * his web site - https://horstmann.com

Mar 19, 202635 min

Spring Messaging Legend: Soby Chacko

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk with the legendary Soby Chacko about Apache Kafka, Spring AI, and much more! #apachekafka #kafka

Mar 12, 202630 min

Neo4j legend Jennifer Reif

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Jennifer Reif, developer advocate at Neo4J, about graph RAG, graph databases, GraphQL, Neo4J, Spring Data Neo4J, and more. #neo4j #graphRag #AI #artificialintelligence

Mar 6, 202655 min

John Willis, author of ”Rebels of Reason”

Hi Spring fans! In this installment I sit down with DevOps legend and industry analyst extraordinaire John Willis and talk about his new book _Rebels of Reason: The Long Road from Aristotle to ChatGPT and AI's Heroes Who Kept the Faith_, and talk about the nature of the ecosystem, AI, the role of the developer in this exciting new world, and so much more! #ai #springboot #developers #artificailintelligence * [get the book](https://www.amazon.com/Rebels-Reason-Aristotle-ChatGPT-Heroes-ebook/dp/B0FCD8TW8R) * begin your [AI journey with Spring AI](https://start.spring.io)

Feb 26, 202648 min

Glenn Renfro: Java and Spring community legend and my friend - on Devnexus and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the amazing Glenn Renfro about Spring Batch, Spring Integration, Spring AI, and much more — plus why you should definitely register to attend the amazing Devnexus event in Atlanta, GA!

Feb 19, 20261h 4m

Java Champion and hilarious friend, Richard Fichtner

Hi, Spring fans! I've been waiting for this episode for so long! Today, we're finally joined by my friend Richard Fichtner, who so took pity on my plight waiting for music to be added to the GraalVM that his company, XDev Software, created the `music-maven-plugin`, the best Maven plugin, ever! This episode was recorded live at the amazing JFokus 2026 event!

Feb 12, 202621 min

Jetbrains legend Marco Behler

hi, Spring fans! In this installment I have the privilege of talking to Jetbrains legend Marco Behler

Feb 5, 202653 min

Start Your Year with Java Right with Java Developer Advocate Billy Korando

Hi, Spring (and Java) fans! In this episode I am beyond delighted to talk Java developer advocate and longtime friend of the show Billy Korando about the latest-and-greatest in the Java ecosystem.

Jan 29, 202646 min

Jetbrains legend Dmitry Jemerov

Hi, Spring and IntelliJ IDEA fans! This week we celebrate 25 years of Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA, and who better to talk to us about its evolution than Dmitry Jemerov, whose been a contributor and developer for the project since 2003!

Jan 22, 20261h 10m

Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Hi, Spring fans! This week we catch up with the observably awesome Jonatan Ivanov on how to measure all the things with Micrometer

Jan 14, 202646 min

Spring Security lead Rob Winch

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I have the privilege of sitting down and talking to the legendary Rob Winch, lead of Spring Security, Spring Session, and the amazing Testjars project.

Jan 8, 202646 min

Apache Tomcat legend Mark Thomas (Happy new year!)

In this episode, I talk with Mark Thomas, the legendary and highly prolific committer to Apache Tomcat. Happy New Year!

Jan 1, 20261h 12m

the legendary Nate Schutta, teacher, friend, and.. harbinger of doom!

Hi Spring fans, and happy holidays! I'm delighted to be joined again on this episode by my friend and fellow harbinger of doom (in the best possible way), Nate Schutta — co-author of the wonderful book _Foundations of Software Engineering_! * get the book here https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fundamentals-of-software/9781098143220/

Dec 25, 202556 min

Spring cofounder Juergen Hoeller on the amazing Spring Framework 7 release

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary cofounder of Spring itself, Juergen Hoeller, about the awesome new Spring Framework 7 release. Happy holidays, one and all!

Dec 18, 20251h 2m

The legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment I talk to the legendary Rossen Stoyanchev on API versioning, declarative interface clients, RestTestClients, and more!

Dec 11, 202532 min

Dan Vega on the fundamentals of software engineering

Hi, Spring fans! I'm so excited to chat with fellow Spring developer advocate Dan Vega about his new book, "Fundamentals of Software Engineering" https://www.danvega.dev/books/fundamentals-of-software-engineering

Dec 4, 202537 min

Spring community legend and friend Simon Martinelli

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving from me, and I am sure the entire Spring team, to you! We are, it should be clear, oh so very grateful.. thankful.. for you, the community. This week it is my great pleasure to chat with Spring community legend Simon Martinelli.

Nov 27, 202544 min

The legendary Sébastien Deleuze on all that’s new and nice in Spring Framework 7

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 4.0 release day! Make sure to get the bits at start.spring.io! This release is packed with new features, a lot of which comes from Spring Framework 7. To help break it down for us this week, we’re joined by none other than the legendary Sébastien Deleuze!

Nov 20, 20251h 1m

The legendary Bruce Eckel on language design, effects, abstraction, concurrency, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I sit down with the legendary Bruce Eckel, who has probably forgotten more about programming languages than I will ever know, and whose book _Thinking in Java_ helped launch me into a career.

Nov 14, 20252h 13m

The Vaadin team, live from Vaadin Create 2025

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I had the privilege to sit down with Vaadin legends Joonas Lehtinen, Marcus Hellberg, and Leif Åstrand at the amazing Vaadin Create 2025 event in Frankfurt, Germany.

Nov 6, 202558 min

Elastic’s developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to my friend and Elastic's developer advocate extraordinairre Philip Krenn on the state of logging

Oct 30, 202553 min

Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the Spring team engineer Dariusz Jędrzejczyk on the latest-and-greatest in the reactive world, MCP, and more

Oct 23, 20251h 16m

Ep 527Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Wuerthinger

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to Oracle VP and GraalVM founder Thomas Weurthinger, recorded at Devoxx 2025!

Oct 16, 202531 min

Spring Security contributor Josh Cummings on the latest-and-greatest in Spring Security 7

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring Security contributor and legend Josh Cummings

Oct 9, 202557 min

Dr. Kris De Volder on developer tooling for Spring developers

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Spring tooling legend Dr. Kris De Volder

Oct 2, 202544 min

Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine

hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the legendary lead of the Spring Batch project, Mahmoud Ben Hassine, about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Batch in the Spring Boot 4 generation.

Sep 25, 202539 min

Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the legendary lead of Spring Cloud and friend to the community, Spencer Gibb! This was recorded live from Las Vegas, NV, at the fantastic SpringOne 2025 event!

Sep 18, 202539 min

Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager, Tanzu Division, Broadcom

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to the general manager of Tanzu, the legendary Purnima Padmanabhan, about AI, the power of the platform, and more. Recorded live from SpringOne 2025!

Sep 11, 202514 min

Spring Cloud guru Ryan Baxter

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we talk to the amazing Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter, live from SpringOne 2025!

Sep 4, 202535 min

JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what’s new in version 8

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, fresh after an exciting and exhausting SpringOne 2025, I am thrilled to have talked with JobRunr founder Ronald Dehuysser on what's new in version 8 JobRunr - https://www.jobrunr.io/en/blog/v8-release/

Aug 28, 202524 min

Andrey Belyaev, product manager for IntelliJ IDEA

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we talk to Andrey Belyaev, a Product Manager at JetBrains working on the IntelliJ IDEA product, about the latest-and-greatest support for Spring in Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA!

Aug 21, 202536 min

Architecture sage and Spring Modulith lead Oliver Drotbohm

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I caught up with architecture guru and Spring Modulith founder and lead Oliver Drotbohm and we looked at some of the amazing possibilities in Spring Modulith 2.0, coming after Spring Framework 7.0 and Spring Boot 4.0 drop later this year!

Aug 14, 202550 min

Andrew Lombardi, Beginning Spring AI co-author, and friend of the show

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I am thrilled to talk to my longtime friend Andrew Lombardi about the latest-and-greatest, his new book _Beginning Spring AI_, and more

Aug 7, 202526 min

Spring Security lead Rob Winch on Spring Security 7.0, SpringOne 2025, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by Spring Security lead Rob Winch to discuss the amazing new additions to Spring Security 7.0, coming in November of 2025, and the coverage you can expect when you see our talk at SpringOne 2025 (have you registered - https://springone.io ?)

Jul 31, 202544 min

José Paumard, Java developer advocate and professor

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, recorded at Devoxx UK 2025, I talk to the legendary professor of computer science and legend José Paumard about Java, the ecosystem, and more,

Jul 25, 202536 min

Spring legends Tasha Isenberg and Jason Konicki

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I speak with Spring legends Jason Konicki and Tasha Isenberg about Spring, the ecosystem, and SpringOne 2025. (By the way, have you registered for it yet - https://springone.io?

Jul 17, 202543 min

API oracle Arjen Poutsma

Hi, Spring fans! In this edition, I had the pleasure of chatting with the brilliant Arjen Poutsma, our go-to API oracle. If you’re curious about his fantastic insights, thoughts, and consultancy services, be sure to check out: https://poutsma-principles.com

Jul 10, 202529 min

Dr. Heinz Kabutz, a legendary Java Champion, teacher, and author of the Java Specialists newsletter!

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Dr. Heinz Kabutz, a legendary Java Champion, trainer, teacher, and author of the Java Specialists newsletter! This episode was recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025

Jul 3, 202527 min

DevOps and AI luminary Patrick Debois

Hi, Spring, cloud native, and AI fans! In this installment, I had the opportunity to briefly sit down and talk with DevOps and AI luminary Patrick Debois, from the amazing Devoxx UK 2025 show.

Jun 27, 202524 min

Micrometer.io lead Tommy Ludwig on the latest-and-greatest in observability for the Spring developer

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, I talk to Micrometer.io lead Tommy Ludwig on the latest-and-greatest in observability for the Spring developer

Jun 19, 202546 min

The legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to the legendary Daniel Garnier-Moiroux on security, AI, MCP, and more, recorded live at Devoxx UK 2025.

Jun 12, 202530 min

IntelliJ IDEA project lead Aleksey Stukalov

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I talk to IntelliJ IDEA lead Aleksey Stukalov

Jun 5, 20251h 19m